What could be more amazing than pulling a calf-length linen A-line skirt out of my closet that I haven’t put on since May and having it slide right down around my ankles? I guess I’m losing a few inches even though the scales don’t seem to want to cooperate. Actually, I’m thinking about throwing mine out. I’d say they were the ultimate downer except they seldom seem to go down!

I apologize for my lack of blogging. Life has been happening all too quickly and I’m having touble keeping up with it.

Yet, having said that, I have suddenly realized that in the past week or so that I haven’t made an entry in my blog, I actually haven’t done much of anything. I have gone to work each morning (except over the weekend) and come back home every night, made supper, took a bike ride more often than not, chit chatted some with DH or whoever happened to call, and then went to bed and got up the next morning and did the same thing all over again.

I experienced a little bit of excitement - if you want to call it that - on Saturday morning when I left my house to drive about 20 miles up the highway to do my grocery shopping. And yes, there are closer grocery stores, but this one has really good & fresh produce, and I like it better than the ones that are closer to me. When I left my house, the sun was out although it DID seem to be clouding up some. When I’d driven no more than ten minutes up the road, the skies turned black, it was thundering and lightening - huge earsplitting rolls of thunder and crazy zig-zaggy bolts of lightening all across the sky. And THEN the rain started, and it came down in torrents! It was like a monsoon! Even on their fastest speed, the windshield wipers couldn’t begin to clear the windshield. And, the roadway filled up quickly with water - had to have been between six inches and a foot deep out there. Most people were pulling over o the side of the road to wait it out, but my car seemed to sputter a few times, and I was afraid that if I pulled over and turned it off, it wouldn’t start again from being so water-logged, so I kept driving about 25 miles an hour until I got to my exit, which was really flooded! What is normally about a 20 minute drive turned into a 40 minute drive, and for a few minutes there, I was really scairt!!!! (Yikes!) But, after I paddled through the exit and emerged out onto the road to the grocery store, the SUN came out and the rain stopped. There was  a beautiful rainbow all across the sky. It was actually a rather strange and unsettling experience. Made me think of what those poor people had to deal with when Katrina hit New Orleans. I mean, I drove through some unpleasantness for 40 minutes and then it was all over. I can’t even begin to imagine the rain and water coming and continuing and just getting worse and worse and higher and higher and having no way to get to dry land. Horrible.

And of course, despite our meditative thoughts, time marches on, and we had plans to meet friends for supper and so we did, and my *scary* experience, as well as the thoughts it provoked, took up residence in the further recesses of my mind until this very moment when I was thinking about what I did this weekend. Odd.

This blog is undoubtedly boring as he**, but I can’t help it. I’m no fun today. I am ON PLAN and oh, planning to spend a long weekend starting this Friday up in York Beach, Maine, where I may actually stuff my sausage-like self into a bathing suit, but will then pull a pair of jean shorts on over it. I wish I were one of those people who are comfortable with their bodies and don’t worry about what anyone else thinks. I never COULD be like that, but I WISH I could. DH says I am overly critical of myself, but I DO look in the mirror for gawd’s sake. I’m NOT blind.

Having the skirt fall off was pretty nice, tho.

Sometimes you feel like dancing, yanno? And I did - for the briefest of moments until I reminded myself how silly I would look and decided against it. What a dull old stick, eh?